American Conservative Foreign Aid Makes Corrupt Countries More Corrupt And there are few better examples than Ukraine—just don’t tell the House impeachment hearings. By James Bovard • October 30, 2019 Counting on foreign aid to reduce corruption is like expecting whiskey to cure alcoholism. After closed House of Representatives impeachment hearings heard testimony on President […]
Archive | October, 2019
Democrats’ “Wrecking Ball Benevolence” Plan for Housing
Daily Caller Leading 2020 Democrats Have A Plan To Wreck The Housing Market Again by James Bovard Contributor October 29, 2019 6:48 PM ET Democratic presidential candidates are hustling massive new programs to close the “racial homeownership gap.” Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris is pushing a $100-billion program to assist up to 4 million minority families […]
Trump Should Push Congress to Admit Folly & Futility of Syrian Intervention
American Renewal Trump Should Ask Congress To Approve Military Intervention In Syria, If Members Want It So Badly Shutterstock/ Dirtymono James Bovard Contributor October 21, 2019 5:58 PM ET The House of Representatives voted 354 to 60 on Oct. 16 to condemn President Donald Trump’s pullback of U.S. troops from eastern Syria as “beneficial to […]
Potomac River Cameos – Photos
A few photos from recent Meetup hikes I led….
Democratic Deliverance Debate? Impeachment, Syria, Biden…
Ohio is the scene of tonight’s Democratic presidential candidate debate. A hundred years in Toledo, Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight crown with a surprise knockout of giant Jess Willard. Will the top candidates similarly get busted up tonight? Watching this debate is akin to a three hour mental root canal https://twitter.com/JimBovard/status/1184288897276284929 + Sen […]
American Foreign Policy: Idiocy or Perfidy?
American Conservative Idiocy or Perfidy? How We Get Hooked on Foreign Democracy Crusades Ted Carpenter’s new book raises important questions about who is wagging who. By James Bovard • October 2, 2019 Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support For Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements by Ted Galen Carpenter, 2019, Cato Institute, […]
A Bushel of Laughs on the Ernie Hancock Radio Show
My old friend Ernie Hancock and I had a rowdy time this morn on his Freedoms Phoenix Radio Show. Ernie kindly asked for a summary of Public Policy Hooligan and I specified that most of the book does not involve people trying to stab me. Ernie asked about the scandal in my old hometown, Front […]